For those in the US, a comedian named Carlos Mencia has a great TV show, Mind of Mencia and one of my favorite segments is "Why the @#$% is this news!" where he goes about showingblatantly obvious things that were reported in various channels. So, when I saw...

There are lots of good reasons for having spare disk for rootvg, as I
looked at in the post make
way for rootvg . With virtual disks you can resize your volume group
on the fly: Increase rootvg
dynamically If your rootvg “disk” is actually virtual,...

I'm glad to be back home in Tucson for a few weeks. All of these conferences kept mefrom reading up with what was going on in the blogosphere. A few of us at IBM found it odd that EMC would announce their new Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart (GDDR)...

The technology industry is full of trade-offs. Take for example solar cells that convert sunlight to electricity. Every hour, more energy hits the Earth in the form of sunlight than the entire planet consumes in an entire year. The general trade-off is...

I'm in the middle of another take on the - Why Virtualize? story - looking at it from a subtly different angle - more of that later this week hopefully. But I have to quickly delve a little bit deeper into the concept of effective Tiering. Flash based disks...

Well, it's Tuesday, and so it is "announcement day" again! Actually, for me it is Wednesday morning herein Mumbai, India, but since I was "press embargoed" until 4pm EDT in talking about these enhancements, I had to wait until Wednesday morning here to talk...

Fellow blogger Chuck Hollis from EMC has a post titled[ Whither Frankenstorage ] causing quite a stir in the [ Stor-o-Sphere ]. He is not the firstEMC blogger to use this phrase, I credit [ BarryB ] for coining the term back in September 2008.Frankenstein...

I'm following theadvice of Tim Sanders, who reminds us [ "Don't let the Wookie always win" ]. In this case, it is not chess pieces, but FUD being slung around like mud between vendors. EMC blogger Chuck Hollis' post [ Products vs. Features ] correctly...

Continuing my catch-up on past posts, Jon Toigo on his DrunkenData blog, posted a [ "bleg" ] for information aboutdeduplication. The responses come from the "who's who" of the storage industry, so I will provide IBM'sview. (Jon, as always, you have my...